Research Catalog

Title

A Different beat : writings by women of the beat generation / edited by Richard Peabody.

Publication

New York, NY : Serpent's Tail, 1997.

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Details

Additional Authors

Peabody, Richard, 1951-

Description

x, 235 pages; 22 cm

Summary

Both a rediscovery and a celebration, this anthology brings together female writing from the Beat period that is so often overshadowed by the usual Kerouac, Ginsberg and Burroughs works.

Series Statement

High risk books

Uniform Title

Serpent's Tail high risk books.

Subjects

• 1900-1999
• Nouvelles
• Short stories
• short stories
• Beats (Persons)
• Beat generation
• Women authors, American > 20th century

Genre/Form

• short stories.
• Short stories.
• Nouvelles.

Contents

Mimi Albert: from The Second Story Man -- Carol Berge: tessa's song, Pavane for the White Queen, Chant for Half the World, Etching -- Carolyn Cassady: from Off the Road: My Years with Cassady, Keroua, and Ginsberg -- Elise Cowen: "At the acting class", "Dear God of the bent trees of Fifth Avenue", "Death I'm Coming", "I took the skin of corpes", "I wanted a cunt of golden pleasure", "If it weren't for love I'd snooze all day", "The sound now in the street is the echo of a long", "Trust yourself-but not too far" -- Leo Skir: Elise Cowen: A Brief Memoir of the Fifties -- Diane di Prima: The Quarrel, Requiem, Minor Arcana, The Window, For Zella, Painting, from Memoirs of a Beatnik -- Brenda Frazer: Breaking out of D.C. (1959) -- Sandra Hocham: Farewell Poems, About My Life at That Time, Postscript, Julian, The Seed, Cancer, Burning with Mist, There Are No Limits to My System -- Joyce Johnson: from Minor Characters -- Kay Johnson: Proximity, poems from paris -- Hettie Jones: from How I Became Hettie Jones -- Lenore Kandel: First They Slaughtered the Angels, Love-Lust Poem, Junk/Angel, Blues for Sister Sally -- Eileen Kaufman: from Who Wouldn't Walk with Tigers -- Frankie "Edie" Kerouac-Parker: from You'll Be Okay -- Jan Kerouac: from Baby Driver, from Trainsong -- Joan Haverty Kerouac: from Nobody's wife -- Joanne Kyger: Tapestry, "Waiting again", "They are constructing a craft", "It is lonely", "The Hunt in the Woods: Paola Uccello, Waiting, "The persimmons are falling", The Pigs for Circe in May -- Fran Landesman: The Ballad of the Sad Young Man, "She" (for Hanja), The Princess from Flatbush, Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most, It's Only a Movie, Why, Homecoming, Where the Blues Begin, All That Fall (for Ernie), The Decline of the West -- Sheri Martinelli: Duties of a Lady Female -- Joanna McClure: 1957, Sound Poem, Ocotillo, A Chinese Painting, 7-21-61, Wolf Poem I, Wolf Poem II, Outside Tucson, 30th Birthday-Haiku, A Vacancy, Hollywood, More Blessed to Give -- Barbara Moraff: "and tom, the existentialiste, drives, off ... ", you phoebusapollo, Hokusai & Moraff, Hokusai got drunk, Piscean Hokusai, Moraff to Hokusai, Hokusai at home, Craft, poetics, the way John told it, mary's testament -- Brigid Muragham: George Washington: A Diaglogue Between Mother & Daughter, Daisy, Chinatown, Mother's Day, Tweeds, For My Mother, "The bridge of all bridges", "The smell of the fish market", "The fog in Washington Square Park", First Asparagus of Spring -- Margaret Randall: Come Winter, Ectacy is a Number, On Seeing An Old Man Die in the Street, Any Little Boy Wanting to Be President, St. Margaret Stepping from the Belly of the Dragon, Untitled, Unnumbered, Number 5, Thelonius, Still Life with Ketchup, Of Our Time, Gesture -- Laura Ullewicz: Pinpoint, Letter Three, Third Generation, Sargasso Sea, Manhattan as a Japanese Print, Celebration in Oregon, Aphrodite Declining, McNichols Road, 1951, Te Deum -- Janine Pommy Vega: "poem to your lean face, leaning down eyes", "thrumming with it Lord thrumming with it", Poem Against Endless Mass Poetry Readings, Junk (& the old man) Changes, Poem/Exhortation -- Anne Waldman: After "les Fleurs", College Under Water, The Blue That Reminds Me of the Boat When She Left, The DeCarlo Lots, How the Sestina (Yawn) Works -- Ruth Weiss: from the Brink.

ISBN

• 1852424311
• 9781852424312

LCCN

97725581

OCLC

• ocm50661709
• 50661709
• SCSB-1149525

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library